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By Andy Warren, 2004/08/12 (first published: 2001/05/18)
These code samples illustrate how to enable and disable all triggers in a database at one time - a task not easily done otherwise! If you haven't use DMO before, I've posted two articles that you may find informative - Introduction to SQL-DMO and More DMO.
If you wanted to do this using plain vanilla SQL you would need to create a script that had one "Alter Table xx Disable Trigger yy" statement per trigger. As written these should run in VBScript or as an ActiveX job. If you would like to use them in VB you should set a reference to the SQL-DMO object library so that you get statement completion and can do strong data typing. One advantage to using code for a task like this is you can easily modify it to only run on tables that start with 'A' or on triggers that contact the word 'Insert' in their name.
Note (2/26/01): Brian Knight has posted an alternative that you may like better if you prefer TSQL to code! I've also just posted a new DMO article demonstrating how to do a restore
Enable Trigger
Dim oServer Dim oTable Dim oTrigger dim DBName 'change this to your database name DBName="PUBS" Set oServer = createobject("SQLDMO.SQLServer") oServer.LoginSecure = True oServer.Connect For Each oTable In oServer.Databases(DBName).Tables For Each oTrigger In oTable.Triggers oTrigger.enabled=true Next Next oServer.DisConnect Set oServer = Nothing
Disable Trigger
Dim oServer Dim oTable Dim oTrigger dim DBName 'change this to your database name DBName="PUBS" Set oServer = createobject("SQLDMO.SQLServer") oServer.LoginSecure = True oServer.Connect For Each oTable In oServer.Databases(DBName).Tables For Each oTrigger In oTable.Triggers oTrigger.enabled=false Next Next oServer.DisConnect Set oServer = Nothing
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Trigger
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